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VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
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Branca has rocketed past Merkel's 8.31 set rating on his 1951 Bowman set.

1951 Bowman

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  • FBFB Posts: 1,684 ✭✭
    Any idea of where he came up with the last few cards?
    Frank Bakka
    Sets - 1970, 1971 and 1972
    Always looking for 1972 O-PEE-CHEE Baseball in PSA 9 or 10!

    lynnfrank@earthlink.net
    outerbankyank on eBay!
  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    FB: If I had to speculate, I am sure the source isn't altogether different than the one David used in completing his 1951 Bowman set. Talk about some really freaking amazing sets!!
    I am actively buying MIKE SCHMIDT gem mint baseball cards. Also looking for any 19th century cabinets of Philadephia Nationals. Please PM with additional details.
  • FBFB Posts: 1,684 ✭✭
    You mean that you sent Branca a Preacher Roe as well?????

    oh... or did you mean Chris?
    Frank Bakka
    Sets - 1970, 1971 and 1972
    Always looking for 1972 O-PEE-CHEE Baseball in PSA 9 or 10!

    lynnfrank@earthlink.net
    outerbankyank on eBay!
  • robr1967robr1967 Posts: 264
    Wow. What a set.

    I don't get it though. If his set is complete and that great, WHY WON'T HE LET US SEE IT???
  • zardoz51zardoz51 Posts: 1,168
    David

    you need to change your owner's comments as you state that there is a 7 in the set.

    Well gosh! I looked at the cards in your set and I can't find a 7 listed anywhere

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    THE FLOGGINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    Z -- Mays is still a 7.

    Branca didn't get anything from Superior. He only needed the Overmire card in PSA 8, which he bought from another collector. Everything else represents a relentless pursuit by him of collectors to buy PSA 9's out of their sets. It's an amzing collection by itself. Add in all his other sets and it's really quite spectacular.
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    I don't get it though. If his set is complete and that great, WHY WON'T HE LET US SEE IT???

    He used to have them "viewable" but told me that dealers were reaming him on prices of cards he still needed.
  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    Rob:

    Why won't Branca let us see his sets:

    1) He has obviously spent five to six figures each on many of his primary sets (1951 Bowman, 1952 Topps, 1953 Bowman Color, 1959 Fleer Ted Williams)

    2) Unlike Charlie and Marshall, he entered relatively late in the game, forcing him to find alternative means to acquire best-known sets.

    3) If dealers/other collectors know which cards he needs -- then they can gouge him even more on price.

    This is an ongoing debate -- but unless I was done with a set, I would view it in my advantage to not let others see what cards he does and does not have. It is clear that this guy pays thousands for some of his 8s and 9s. If he knew that most dealers and collectors knew that, it is to his strategic advantage to hold his hands close as to which cards he still needs and which he does not. One of the "best" strategic advantages of hiding such a set is that it is not even clear a) if he has any cards in PSA 7, and b) if his 9s are commons, stars, both, and, if both, if it is an even distribution or if it is weighted more towards one than the other.

    Until this guy stops writing five-figure checks in upgrading the sets he has -- why should he let others know which ones he needs?
    I am actively buying MIKE SCHMIDT gem mint baseball cards. Also looking for any 19th century cabinets of Philadephia Nationals. Please PM with additional details.
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    Just for the record though, his 1951 set is 100% PSA 8 or better now with the purchase of the Overmire card.
  • DavalilloDavalillo Posts: 1,846 ✭✭
    I sold John my Overmire and 5 psa 9s including a 1/1. There is a price for everything.
  • FBFB Posts: 1,684 ✭✭
    Davalillo,

    How true... how true...
    Frank Bakka
    Sets - 1970, 1971 and 1972
    Always looking for 1972 O-PEE-CHEE Baseball in PSA 9 or 10!

    lynnfrank@earthlink.net
    outerbankyank on eBay!
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    Jim -- This is not directed at you in any way, but I am reminded of a joke.


    A man approaches a beautiful woman at a bar and makes her an offer, "Would you go to bed with me for a million dollars cash?" The woman thinks about it for a few seconds and says, "Sure, why not." The man then asks, "Would you go to bed with me for fifty dollars cash?" The woman gets indignant at this point and glaringly replies, "Absolutely not! Just what do you think I am?" The man replies without batting an eye, "We've already determined that. Now we're just negotiating price."
  • theBobstheBobs Posts: 1,136 ✭✭
    Excellent Vargha, so true, so true
    Where have you gone Dave Vargha
    CU turns its lonely eyes to you
    What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
    Vargha bucks have left and gone away?

    hey hey hey
    hey hey hey
  • DavalilloDavalillo Posts: 1,846 ✭✭
    I also just sold him 12 1953 Bowman Black & Whites(psa 8)--tough cards--and a 1933 Goudey psa 8.
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    The man is on a buying spree. John was nice enough to offer me a duplicate PSA 9 low number for sale from his 1951 Bowman set that I agreed to purchase. I would love to see his collection sometime. He has built it in only about four years.
  • dudedude Posts: 1,454 ✭✭
    Branca wins the pennant!
    Branca wins the pennant!
    Branca wins the pennant!

    Oh wait, I'm confusing this with something else having to do with 1951. Sorry. image
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    Actually, Ralph Branca (pitcher on the 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers) is his uncle. John owns the only PSA 9 Branca card from that set.
  • theBobstheBobs Posts: 1,136 ✭✭
    ... Nevermind ...
    Where have you gone Dave Vargha
    CU turns its lonely eyes to you
    What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
    Vargha bucks have left and gone away?

    hey hey hey
    hey hey hey
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